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8I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
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All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)David here cuts out to himself and others a pattern both of a good magistrate and a good master of a family; and, if these were careful to discharge the duty of their place, it would contribute very much to a universal reformation. Observe, I. The chosen subject of the psalm (Ps. 101:1): I will sing of mercy and judgment , that is, 1. Of God’s mercy and judgment, and then it looks back upon the di…
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